Lightning Rod working in no rain?

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CavernAce

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THe titles says it all, does the lightning work without rain because in the server I play on, it's automatically turned off, and I just spent about 2 stacks of iridium making about 10 of these things

It would nice to know, and thank you for your time
 

the_j485

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Look behind you
It's not like vanilla lightning, you see, it's actually like little streaks of beautiful thaumcraft lightning shooting out from the tip of it, so it does work in any weather :D
 

DoctorOr

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It's not like vanilla lightning, you see, it's actually like little streaks of beautiful thaumcraft lightning shooting out from the tip of it, so it does work in any weather :D

Uh, I tried it and it worked any weather. Pretty conclusive evidence tbh...

At best, you're hopelessly confused, more likely you're maliciously trolling.

The GregTech lightning rod has nothing to do with Thaumcraft and lightning absolutely does not shoot out the tip of it. Nor does it work "in any weather"

To stem off further questions and trolling: Lightning bees do not work. Lightning wands do not work. And the lightning from opening a twilight forest gate does not work. This is because it's not actually looking for lightning at all and in fact is nothing more than a probability of generating power whenever there is a rainstorm.
 

ICountFrom0

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nope, won't work at all.

The plural of anecdote is not data.

Though of course, wiki being editable by anybody is also anecdote in collated form... I offer you a collection.


http://ftbwiki.org/Lightning_Rod
http://gregtech-addon.wikispaces.com/Lightningrod
http://feed-the-beast.wikia.com/wiki/Lightning_Rod
http://wiki.industrial-craft.net/index.php?title=IndustrialCraft-Addons:GregTech-Addon#Lightningrod

and the real killing blow of your statement J

http://forum.industrial-craft.net/index.php?page=Thread&postID=94620#post94620

the actual code of the lightening rod.

Likely yours was still just outputting eu from the internal buffer of 25m.

100% of the chance calculated by the total height of the metal fences in a storm, and if you have more then 128 of them 10% of that chance in rain. And only under those conditions.

Because rain and storm is off server wide, you can't even use the current sidestep of a mystcraft "thundering" age. Charged worked briefly, but that was a glitch, only thundering works properly.

With no rain, and no storm, you get no power. Ask admin to refund you, admit to being a fool and beg.